The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/21 at 10:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 21, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/21 at 10:00 EDT

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Please play responsibly. Charitable gaming, community good. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Claude Faye. Canada, the United Kingdom in Australia, have announced that they are formally recognizing a Palestinian state. Prime Minister Mark Carney released a statement on social media this morning, reaffirming Canada stance. The announcements coming ahead of this week's UN General Assembly in New York. Reporter Anna Cunningham has more on the UK reaction.

In July, British Prime Minister Kistama issued a warning, saying his government would recognise a Palestinian statehood unless Israel committed to a ceasefire, a two-state solution, and allowed the UN to restart the supply of aid. Hamas is not the Palestinian people. Since the British Deputy Prime Minister David Lamy. We believe in a homeland for the Jewish people, but we also stated that we believed in the civil and religious rights of the Palestinian people. Reaction in London remains divided. I think to be honest, it's much later than it should have been. The government are trying to win back some support from people that know that they're wrong about this. There is also concern amongst British Jews.

This is being seen by us as a reward for the awful events of October the 7th. The British government says its demands for the release of Israeli hostages has not changed and further announcements on sanctioning Hamas will be made. Anna Cunningham, CBC News, London. price tag for skilled workers to enter the U.S. comes into effect today. It was only Friday when President Donald Trump announced the cost for an H-1B visa was going to spike dramatically. A move he said that would protect American jobs. But it's creating panic in the countries those skilled workers are coming from. 71 percent of them are Indian. Salima Shivji has more. A new annual fee of

$100,000 that companies will have to pay to get an H-1B visa. for foreign employees. That's some 50 times more than what the visa costs now. Everyone's going to be happy and we're going to be able to keep people in our country that are going to be very productive people. Trump's surprise announcement left tech companies and Wall Street banks scrambling. With many who hold H-1B visas worried, they'd have to rush back to the U.S. before the new rules came into effect today. There was panic in India with the vast majority of H-1B visa recipients coming from the South Asian country. New Delhi rushed to help confused visa holders until the White House clarified the fee would only apply to new applicants.

On the streets of Mumbai, Sunil Rao says America will lose out in the end. People can work here and do something better for India. But it's also the latest hurdle in a tumultuous U.S.-India relationship. Salima Shivjee, CBC News, Mumbai. There were demonstrations across the country yesterday calling on the federal government to prioritize the climate, indigenous rights and other issues in its upcoming budget. In Vancouver, protesters push back against a proposed pipeline from Alberta to northern BC. Chief Marilyn Sled is the president of BC's coastal First Nations initiative.

Our communities, our coastal communities, have worked really hard over decades to protect the coast from crude oil. And so this position isn't new, new for us, but it is certainly being brought out again with all of the discussions. The plan has support from the National Coalition of Chiefs in Alberta. The organization says it would benefit First Nations communities and industry. The pipeline was not part of the government's nation building infrastructure projects that were announced earlier this month. A second tranche of projects is expected in November. In Newfoundland, the town of St. Lawrence will have to wait a bit longer to go down in history this weekend.

The rocket launch window assigned to aerospace startup, Nordspace that was due this morning has been canceled due to unfavorable conditions. There is hope the launch may still be able to take place this afternoon, an update as expected later this morning, and if successful, it would mark the first time a commercial rocket is launched from a Canadian port. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fagg. Thank you.